Author: Mark Twain
Publisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 1554812666
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
The two narratives published together in The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson and the Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins are overflowing with spectacular events. Twain shows us conjoined twins, babies exchanged in the cradle, acts of cross-dressing and racial masquerade, duels, a lynching, and a murder mystery. Pudd’head Wilson tells the story of babies, one of mixed race and the other white, exchanged in their cradles, while Those Extraordinary Twins is a farcical tale of conjoined twins. Although the stories were long viewed as flawed narratives, their very incongruities offer a fascinating portrait of key issues—race, disability, and immigration—facing the United States in the final decades of the nineteenth century. Hsuan Hsu’s introduction traces the history of literary critics’ response to these works, from the confusion of Twain’s contemporaries to the keen interest of current scholars. Extensive historical appendices provide contemporary materials on race discourse, legal contexts, and the composition and initial reception of the texts.
Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins
Author: Mark Twain
Publisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 1554812666
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
The two narratives published together in The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson and the Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins are overflowing with spectacular events. Twain shows us conjoined twins, babies exchanged in the cradle, acts of cross-dressing and racial masquerade, duels, a lynching, and a murder mystery. Pudd’head Wilson tells the story of babies, one of mixed race and the other white, exchanged in their cradles, while Those Extraordinary Twins is a farcical tale of conjoined twins. Although the stories were long viewed as flawed narratives, their very incongruities offer a fascinating portrait of key issues—race, disability, and immigration—facing the United States in the final decades of the nineteenth century. Hsuan Hsu’s introduction traces the history of literary critics’ response to these works, from the confusion of Twain’s contemporaries to the keen interest of current scholars. Extensive historical appendices provide contemporary materials on race discourse, legal contexts, and the composition and initial reception of the texts.
Publisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 1554812666
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
The two narratives published together in The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson and the Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins are overflowing with spectacular events. Twain shows us conjoined twins, babies exchanged in the cradle, acts of cross-dressing and racial masquerade, duels, a lynching, and a murder mystery. Pudd’head Wilson tells the story of babies, one of mixed race and the other white, exchanged in their cradles, while Those Extraordinary Twins is a farcical tale of conjoined twins. Although the stories were long viewed as flawed narratives, their very incongruities offer a fascinating portrait of key issues—race, disability, and immigration—facing the United States in the final decades of the nineteenth century. Hsuan Hsu’s introduction traces the history of literary critics’ response to these works, from the confusion of Twain’s contemporaries to the keen interest of current scholars. Extensive historical appendices provide contemporary materials on race discourse, legal contexts, and the composition and initial reception of the texts.
Chiromancy, or The science of palmistry, by H. Frith and E.H. Allen
Author: Henry Frith
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Supplement to the Catalogue (issued in 1884) of the Circulating and a Portion of the Intermediate Departments, Worcester, 1889
Author: Worcester Public Library
Publisher:
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Category : Catalogs, Dictionary
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Catalogs, Dictionary
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description
Annual Supplement to the Catalogue of the Library of Parliament in Alphabetical and Subject Order
Author: Canada. Library of Parliament
Publisher:
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Category : Dictionary catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 828
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Dictionary catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 828
Book Description
Dictionary of philosophy and psychology, ed. by J.M. Baldwin. [With] Bibliography of philosophy, psychology, and cognate subjects, by B. Rand. 3 vols. [in 4].
Author: Dictionary
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
Borderland
Author: William Thomas Stead
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Category : Parapsychology
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
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Category : Parapsychology
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology
Author: James Mark Baldwin
Publisher:
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Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: List of collaborators. Editor's preface. Table of contents. Abbreviations. Text, A-Laws
Author: James Mark Baldwin
Publisher:
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Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library at Broomhill, Tunbridge Wells
Author: Sir David Salomons
Publisher:
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Category : Private libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 1038
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Publisher:
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Category : Private libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 1038
Book Description
Minutes of the Shaftsbury Baptist Association, Held at Cheshire ... June, 1811
Author: Shaftsbury Baptist Association
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Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 694
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